e-grep 2.5

e-grep is a command-line text search utility that matches patterns using extended regular expressions (ERE). It’s designed for quickly scanning source code, logs, and large text files, printing only the lines that match your pattern. In many modern environments, e-grep is functionally equivalent to running grep with the -E flag.

Key capabilities:

• Extended regular expressions: supports alternation (|), grouping ( ), and repetition (+, ?, {m,n})
• Flexible matching: case-insensitive searches, whole-word matches, and inverted matches
• Recursive search: traverse directories to find matches across many files
• Useful context: show line numbers, file names, and surrounding lines (-A, -B, -C)
• Colorized output and piping: highlight matches and integrate smoothly with other Unix tools

Typical uses include filtering logs, locating symbols in codebases, and extracting structured data from text. It runs on most Unix-like systems and fits naturally into shell scripts and command-line workflows.

e-grep is developed by hockeydata. The most popular version of this product among our users is 2.5. The name of the program executable file is e-grep.exe.